As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
PEDDLER
Includes any person traveling by foot, wagon, automotive
vehicle or other conveyance, from place to place, from house to house
or from street to street, carrying, conveying or transporting goods,
wares, merchandise, meats, fish, vegetables, fruits, garden truck
or farm products or provisions, offering and exposing the same for
sale or making sales and delivering articles to purchasers. "Peddler"
also means any person who, without traveling from place to place,
sells any of the aforesaid products, or offers the same for sale,
from a wagon, automotive vehicle or other vehicle or conveyance. Any
person who solicits orders and as a separate transaction makes deliveries
to purchasers as part of a scheme or design to evade the provisions
of this article shall be deemed a peddler. "Peddler" includes the
words "hawker" and "huckster."
[Amended 8-19-1998 by Ord. No. 365]
A. No person shall engage in the business of peddler without first obtaining
a license therefor. No such license shall be granted except upon certification
of the City Administrator.
B. The fee for such license shall be set from time to time by resolution
of the City Council.
No peddler shall stop or remain in any one place upon any street,
alley or public place longer than necessary to make a sale to a customer
wishing to buy. Any peddler using a vehicle, when stopped, shall place
his or her vehicle parallel to and within 12 inches of the curb and
shall depart from such place as soon as he or she has completed sales
with customers actually present.
No peddler, in the sale of goods, wares and merchandise, shall
obstruct any street, alley, sidewalk or driveway, except as may be
necessary and reasonable to consummate a sale, nor barter, sell or
offer or expose for sale any goods, wares or merchandise in front
of or at the side of any property against the wish or desire of the
property owner or the tenant or occupant of such property, nor remain
at any such place under any such circumstance. No peddler shall engage
in peddling on any street, alley or public place after having been
requested to desist by any police officer of the City because of congested
or dangerous traffic conditions.
No peddler shall shout or cry out his or her goods or merchandise,
nor blow any horn, ring any bell or use any other similar device to
attract the attention of the public.
No person shall operate or maintain any stand, vehicle, store
or place of business on or near any highway in such a manner that
the customers of or traders with such person occupy or congregate
within the limits of any street, lane, highway or public place in
the city. No person shall be permitted to use the streets, alleys,
lanes or public places of the City for the service of customers or
for the transaction of business, or to use any stand, store or other
place of business in any manner that requires the customer, when transacting
such business, to stand within the limits of a street, highway, alley
or public place of the city.
No person or organization operating under this article, whether
licensed or exempt from a license, shall engage in any business or
make any call for business purposes before 9:00 a.m. or after 7:00
p.m. or sundown, whichever occurs first.
A violation of any provision of this article shall be a misdemeanor
punishable as provided in Chapter
1, General Provisions, Article
II.